Susan L. Graham

Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, Graham is an American computer scientist who has served as the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer...

Venu Govindaraju

Co-developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, Govindaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist and educator whose primary contributions are...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe

Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Welke

Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry, Welke is also remembered as a co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of ADAPSO (known today as the Information Technology Association...

Hermann Kopetz

Chief architect of the Time-Triggered Protocol and the Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA), Kopetz has spent over twenty-five years developing a computing infrastructure for the design and implementation of dependable distributed embedded systems. He...

Frederic (Ted) Withington

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Withington began his career as a programmer at NSA in 1953. Over the years he worked for computer makers...

Maurice Vincent Wilkes

Designer and builder of EDSAC, the first fully productive stored-program electronic computer, Wilkes transformed the foundations of modern computing. Wilkes designed and constructed EDSAC at Cambridge University as the first fully productive stored-program...

Daniel Karrenberg

Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze data about the Internet itself....

Gideon Gartner

Founder of Gartner Group (now Gartner, Inc.), Gartner built one of the most influential IT research and advisory firms in the world. IT "advisory" firms are distinct from consultancies, in that they provide...

Algirdas Avizienis

Organizer and director of the JPL STAR research project from 1961 to 1972, Avizienis is a Lithuanian-born computer scientist whose effort resulted in the construction and evaluation of the experimental JPL STAR...

Eugene (Spaf) Howard Spafford

Co-developer of a number of "firsts" in computer security, Spafford is a leading computer security expert and historically significant Internet figure, renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm and his prominent role...

Andrew Hinchley

Recognized as one of the 25 founders of the Internet, Hinchley was formally honored at a ceremony at Stanford University. He has worked on the sharing and exchange of clinical information in...

Tak H. Ning

Co-inventor and developer of the polysilicon-emitter self-aligned bipolar transistor, which is the basis of all modern bipolar transistor technology, Ning has made foundational contributions to semiconductor device physics. He received his Ph.D....

John Maurice McClean Pinkerton

Co-designer of England's first business computer, the LEO computer, Pinkerton was a pioneering British computer designer who worked alongside David Caminer to produce the machine for J. Lyons and Co in 1951....

John Richard Rice

Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...

Paul Armer

President of AFIPS and longtime RAND computer scientist, Armer studied chemistry at Loyola University in Los Angeles. His college career was interrupted by the armed services, where he worked in meteorology. After...

Lars Heide

Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Heide is a noted international historian and associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School.

Lawrence J. Shoenberg

Noted for serving as head of three sections of ADAPSO—Software Products, Professional Services, and Information Systems Integration—Shoenberg also spent 20 years on the ADAPSO board and served a term as its chair....

George Glaser

President of AFIPS and active leader across many professional organizations, Glaser was noted for his service to the information technology profession as a whole, through his leadership, enthusiastic support, and tireless work...

Arthur Dehon Little

Founder of the consulting company Arthur D. Little, which played key roles in the development of the word processor and much more, Little was an American chemist and chemical engineer born in...